On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Connor Behan <connor.be...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 20/07/13 09:53 AM, Sébastien Luttringer wrote: >> 4) Speed >> It avoid pacman to checks version for each deps. This save a lot of >> useless computing (parsing and comparing two version)[1]. >> Even if it's not a big deal on last intel processor, this is >> noticeable on slow processor (like raspberry pie, alix or soekris). >> >> We can resume these 4 points by saying : It's more simple. >> >> Of course there is drawback for people not updating the whole system. >> It's unsupported. >> > Those processors are no more supported than partial updates.
pacman doesn't have Arch Linux-specific stuff but other distros / systems should be running on powerful processors because pacman devs don't care about slower ones?